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Arts and Entertainment 32 JEWISH TELEGRAPH Friday November 16, 2012 CONTACT MIKE COHEN [email protected] ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Tel: 0161 741 2637 Sons rise as Adam joins forces with LOPEZ DEBORAH PICTURE: Rufus and Teddy PICTURE: SHAYNE LAVERDIERE BY SIMON YAFFE language album Mélancolista. After being signed by DAM COHEN Manhattan Records, Adam Sage words leave no-one teamed up with Michael may be the son Chaves, Jorgen Carlsson and of a world- Erik Eldenius to form the famous pop-rock band Low Millions. in doubt about her faith musician — They released the album BY TONY SHELDON Abut he has forged his Ex-Girlfriend in 2004. Adam’s father, he said, has MEETING Rachael Sage is an experience to cherish. own path in the been very encouraging over Bubbly, gregarious and bursting with energy despite business. his son’s work. claiming jet-lag after arriving from America just 24 hours Adam, whose father is the He explained: “By and earlier. legendary Leonard Cohen, large, I am really privileged This mid-30s singer, actor and writer even founded her has teamed up with two to be who I am and I share a own record label Mpress in 2001 and has launched her musicians whose own fathers genetic code with someone 10th CD, Haunted by You, to coincide with her 25-day are renowned in the music who I find remarkable.” European tour. business. Adam, who describes his Living in New York, she was lucky to have only suffered Rufus Wainwright is the music as modern-folk, thinks a ‘loss of power’ during Superstorm Sandy, but some of son of Loudon Wainwright there has been a sharp and her friends had endured frightening experiences with III, while Teddy Thompson’s cultural decline of music. property loss. father is Richard Thompson. “Everything has its ebbs Always encouraged in her desire to act and sing by her And Adam and Teddy are and flows — at one point parents, starting at school, she recorded a demo at 12 and opening for Rufus on his whaling was the most her first CD in 1996. latest UK tour. important thing in the At college, she took a major in theatre and a minor in Adam, who is brother-in- world,” Adam added. Slavic studies, delving into her family’s genealogical law to Rufus, told the Jewish The father of five-year old background. Telegraph: “Rufus is also one Cassius, Adam said his She trained in theatre at the Actor’s Studio and of my oldest friends, so Jewish identity is important Shakespeare Lab in New York and also gained experience touring together is like a to him, but not religiously. working in Dublin. beautiful travelling family He added: “I was born into a She toured as the opening act for singer Ani Di Franco circus. Jewish family and there are in 1998 and then won a contest to join the Ladies USA tour “People have a presumption certain aspects of the culture of 1999 which included Chrissie Hynde and Suzanne Vega. of similarity concerning the which I find beautiful. Concentrating on her writing and singing at the piano, three of us because of who our “But in my family there are she has now added her on guitar-playing accompaniment fathers are. many forms of religion that to some of her songs as she tours the States and beyond. “But there is no secret club are studied and practised, so Influenced by icons such as The Beatles and Elvis GENETIC CODE: Adam Cohen for the children of famous it is not exclusively Jewish.” Costello, she reminds me very much of a female Dean people — it just so happens resemblance to my father’s international relations at Adam performed in Israel Friedman. that we are all friends. work. Syracuse University, said: “It for the first time last year Many of her songs are very quirky as she pounds the and said he intends to return “We all have different “But I abandoned the music was always my intention to piano, stamps her feet and clicks her fingers wtih a there. relationships with our business for a while and then go into music. powerful stage presence. fathers.” I figured why not record stuff “My musical palate is quite “I did a beautiful show in She produces charity CDs for The Network Youth Adam released his I love and try to make an wide — I was obsessed with Tel Aviv in December and I Foundation, an American organisation catering for young acclaimed third solo album, intimate and beautiful record Bob Marley and Prince.” loved it,” he said. people who have lost their way. Like A Man, earlier this year in my father’s tradition.” He moved to LA in 1996 to “Israel is a fascinating Like many singer/songwriters, she writes from the heart and has been touring Adam, 40, was born in his focus on his music career and place.” and life’s personal experiences often find their way into her worldwide since its release. father’s home city of was signed to Columbia Dates on the tour with compositions. He will release a new single Montreal, but spent parts of Records. Rufus Wainwright include At the Castle in Manchester, which is not the most ideal from the album entitled his childhood with his Adam’s debut album, Adam Birmingham Symphony Hall venue for Rachael, she was accompanied on cello by Ward Matchbox on Monday. American mother Suzanne in Cohen, was released in 1998 tomorrow, Nottingham Royal Williams, which really complimented her performance. Adam said of Like A Man: France, Greece, New York and he also co-wrote Lullaby Concert Hall on Tuesday, A Jewish singer who leaves no-one in doubt about her “It is basically a new City and Los Angeles. in Blue for Bette Midler’s York Barbican the following faith and encompasses it in her songs, two of which are collection of songs I had He had taught himself to album Bathouse Betty. night, Manchester Apollo on included on her latest CD — Invisible Light and Birthday. written over the course of my play guitar, drums and piano He decided to focus on December 11, Usher Hall in The former is a melancholy reflection of the break-up of career. by 12 and later worked as a French-language material Edinburgh on December 13 a long-time relationship with her Jewish boyfriend. “I never had the confidence roadie for the calypso artist and was signed to Capitol and Glasgow’s 02 Academy Abby Would You Wait is dedicated to her uncle who to release it before because I Gordon Henderson. Records Canada, with whom the next night. died recently at the age of 98. Everything has a country felt the songs bore a Adam, who read he released the French- I www.adamcohen.com music feel while California has that feelgood factor. Rachael also introduces the kazoo into some of her ‘breakneck’ numbers. And there is a touch of Kate Bush — who Rachael Rachael finds Mastermind so a-Peel-ing sometimes performs tribute shows as. Rachael can certainly hold an audience’s attention. It was just a pity that there was such a small audience. MUSIC fan Rachael Neiman final in both BBC Salford to record will show off her knowledge programmes. Mastermind, accompanied by of John Peel when she makes “I thought I would give her parents, Karen and a repeat appearance on Mastermind another go as Michael Neiman, of St Alexei hosts Arab event brainy TV quiz programme quite a number of people Anne’s, partner Adam THE Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival’s Funny Arabs event is Mastermind. have been on more than Wiseman and friends. being hosted by . a Jewish comedian. The 28-year-old answered once,” she said. As well as appearing on Alexei Sayle will also announce a nationwide questions on the late Radio “Host John Humphries is a quiz programmes and competition searching for new Arab comic talent. One DJ’s Festive Fifty, which really nice guy and he studying for her PhD, New York-based Arab comedienne Maysoon Zayid will ran from 1977 to 2003. remembered me from the Rachael also hosts a show on star in the show at the city’s Epstein Theatre — named Her episode will be last time I was on. Internet radio station after The Beatles’ Jewish manager Brian Epstein. screened tonight on BBC2 “I only became involved in Dandelionradio.com and set (8pm) — and will be available quizzes after learning that up her own indie music on iPlayer. auditions were being held for record label Cherryade. It is not the first time that University Challenge. Cherryade was awarded Rachael, of Didsbury, south “I had a brilliant time, so I Record Label of the Year by Manchester, has appeared on guess that got me hooked.” Radio 1’s Huw Stevens in TV JEWS Mastermind. Blackpool-raised Rachael 2006. IN the second episode of The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler on In 2010, she answered read English literature at “In the current climate, questions on her favourite Manchester University and Monday (9pm) on BBC2, there is a look at the peak of the the big music labels are dictator’s popularity in Germany throughout the 1930s. indie band, Belle and is now studying for a PhD in struggling, so it is a good Sebastian. the history of DIY music. Actress Sarah Solemani returns in the new series of Him & time for indie bands,” Her on Sunday (10pm) on BBC3. A year earlier, Rachael, Rachael, who always had Rachael explained. who is blind, appeared with very little sight, went Alan Yentob meets street photography pioneer and fellow Manchester completely blind when she “Through the Internet, filmmaker William Klein in Imagine: The Many Lives of William University students on was 16.
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